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Movies where German is spoken

  • The Lives of Others

    10

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    focuses on the horrifying, sometimes unintentionally funny system of observation in the former East Germany. In the early 1980s, the successful dramatist Georg Dreyman and his longtime companion Christa-Maria Sieland, a popular actress, are big intellectual stars in the socialist state, although they secretly don’t always think loyal to the party line. One day, the Minister of Culture becomes interested in Christa, so the secret service agent Wiesler is instructed to observe and sound out the couple, but their life fascinates him more and more.

  • Schindler's List

    9

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    In Poland during World War II, Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.

  • Shutter Island

    9

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.

  • Waltz with Bashir

    9

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term service in that conflict.

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  • Paths of Glory

    9

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    When soldiers in WW1 refuse to continue with an impossible attack, their superiors decide to make an example of them.

  • The Reader

    9

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Post-WWII Germany: Nearly a decade after his affair with an older woman came to a mysterious end, law student Michael Burk re-encounters his former lover as she defends herself in a war-crime trial.

  • The Downfall

    9

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Traudl Junge (Lara), the final secretary for Adolf Hitler (Ganz), tells of the Nazi dictator’s final days in his Berlin bunker at the end of WWII.

  • Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark

    9

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Archeologist and adventurer Indiana Jones is hired by the US government to find the Ark of the Covenant, before the Nazis…

  • Funny Games

    9

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic “games” with one another for their own amusement.

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  • Children of Men

    9

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    In 2027, in a chaotic world in which humans can no longer procreate, a former activist agrees to help transport a miraculously pregnant woman to a sanctuary at sea, where her child’s birth may help scientists save the future of humankind.

  • Lifeboat

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    In the Atlantic during WWII, a ship and a German U-boat are involved in a battle and both are sunk. The survivors from the ship gather in one of the boats. They are from a variety of backgrounds: an international journalist, a rich businessman, the radio operator, a nurse, a steward, a sailor and an engineer with communist tendencies. Trouble starts when they pull a man out of the water who turns out to be from the U-boat.

  • Inglourious Basterds

    8

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as “The Basterds” are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis.

  • Metropolis

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

  • The Game

    8

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    Wealthy financier Nicholas Van Orton gets a strange birthday present from wayward brother Conrad: a live-action game that consumes his life.

  • United 93

    8

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    A real time account of the events on United Flight 93, one of the planes hijacked on 9/11 that crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania when passengers foiled the terrorist plot.

  • The Edukators

    8

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

  • Annie Hall

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.

  • The Pianist

    8

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    A Polish Jewish musician struggles to survive the destruction of the Warsaw ghetto of World War II.

  • Elephant

    8

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

  • Run, Lola, Run

    8

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    A young woman in Germany has twenty minutes to find and bring 100,000 Deutschmarks to her boyfriend before he robs a supermarket.

  • Before Sunrise

    8

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    A young man and woman meet on a train in Europe, and wind up spending one romantic evening together in Vienna. Unfortunately, both know that this will probably be their only night together.

  • Grave of the Fireflies

    8

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    A tragic film covering a young boy and his little sister’s struggle to survive in Japan during World War II.

  • Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

    8

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    When Dr. Henry Jones Sr. suddenly goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, eminent archaeologist Indiana Jones must follow in his father’s footsteps and stop the Nazis.

  • Persepolis

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Poignant coming-of-age story of a precocious and outspoken young Iranian girl that begins during the Islamic Revolution.

  • Blade Runner

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Deckard, a blade runner, has to track down and terminate 4 replicants who hijacked a ship in space and have returned to earth seeking their maker…

  • Sophie Scholl

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    A dramatization of the final days of Sophie Scholl, one of the most famous members of the German World War II anti-Nazi resistance movement, The White Rose.

  • Joyeux Noël

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    On Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace, so they bury their dead and play football.

  • Das Experiment

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Based on the infamous “Stanford Prison Experiment” conducted in 1971. A makeshift prison is set up in a research lab, complete with cells, bars and surveillance cameras. For two weeks 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards. The ‘prisoners’ are locked up and have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the ‘guards’ are told simply to retain order without using physical violence. Everybody is free to quit at any time, thereby forfeiting payment.

  • The Last King of Scotland

    8

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Based on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin’s regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s

  • Hanna

    7

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    Hanna (Ronan) is a teenage girl. Uniquely, she has the strength, the stamina, and the smarts of a soldier; these come from being raised by her father (Bana), an ex-CIA man, in the wilds of Finland. Living a life unlike any other teenager, her upbringing and training have been one and the same, all geared to making her the perfect assassin. The turning point in her adolescence is a sharp one; sent into the world by her father on a mission, Hanna journeys stealthily across Europe while eluding agents dispatched after her by a ruthless intelligence operative with secrets of her own (Ms. Blanchett). As she nears her ultimate target, Hanna faces startling revelations about her existence and unexpected questions about her humanity.

  • The Devil's Advocate

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Based on a book by Andrew Neiderman, the film centers on a young lawyer who joins a New York firm only to discover that his boss has an increasingly bizarre personality.

  • The Debt

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    The espionage thriller begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stefan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciarán Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by their country because of the mission that they undertook back in 1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas, and Sam Worthington) tracked down Nazi war criminal Vogel (Jesper Christensen) in East Berlin. At great risk, and at considerable personal cost, the team's mission was accomplished - or was it? The suspense builds in and across two different time periods, with startling action and surprising revelations.

  • The Queen

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Diana the “People’s Princess” has died in a car accident in Paris. The Queen and her family decide that for the best, they should remain hidden behind the closed doors of Balmoral Castle. The heartbroken public do not understand and request that the Queen comforts her people. This also puts pressure on newly elected Tony Blair, who constantly tries to convince the monarchy to address the public.

  • Swordfish

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    When the DEA shut down its dummy corporation operation codenamed SWORDFISH in 1986, they had generated $400 million which they let sit around; fifteen years of compound interest has swelled it to $9.5 billion. A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell, headed by the duplicitious and suave Gabriel Shear, wants the money to help finance their raise-the-stakes vengeance war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away behind super-encryption. He brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson, who only wants to see his daughter Holly again but can't afford the legal fees, to slice into the government mainframes and get the money.

  • Barry Lyndon

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband’s position in 18th Century aristocracy.

  • X-Men: First Class

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    In 1962, Charles Xavier starts up a school and later a team, for humans with superhuman abilities. Among them is Erik Lensherr, his best friend… and future archenemy.

  • Contact

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Dr. Ellie Arroway, after years of searching, finds conclusive radio proof of intelligent aliens, who send plans for a mysterious machine.

  • Unknown

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    A man awakens from a coma, only to discover that someone has taken on his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of a young woman, he sets out to prove who he is.

  • Munich

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Based on the true story of the Black September aftermath, about the five men chosen to eliminate the ones responsible for that fateful day.

  • A Very Long Engagement

    7

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    Tells the story of a young woman’s relentless search for her fiancé, who has disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.

  • The Wave

    7

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    A high school teacher’s unusual experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.

  • The Bourne Identity

    7

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    A man is picked up by a fishing boat, bullet-riddled and without memory, then races to elude assassins and recover from amnesia.

  • The Big Lebowski

    7

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    “Dude” Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.

  • Superman Returns

    7

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    After a long visit to the lost remains of the planet Krypton, the Man of Steel returns to earth to become the peoples savior once again and reclaim the love of Lois Lane.

  • Torn Curtain

    7

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    An American scientist publicly defects to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the solution for a formula resin and then figuring out a plan to escape back to the West.

  • Lord of War

    7

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    An arms dealer confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an Interpol agent.

  • Angels & Demons

    7

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    Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon works to solve a murder and prevent a terrorist act against the Vatican.

  • The Thomas Crown Affair

    7

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    A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.

  • Time To Leave

    7

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    A successful fashion photographer is a gay man with terminal cancer. Slowly coming to terms with his situation he is cruel to his lover, has refused chemotherapy, nasty to his pregnant sister and uncommunicative to his loving and supportive parents.

  • Frontière(s)

    7

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    A gang of young thieves flee Paris during the violent aftermath of a political election, only to hole up at an Inn run by neo-Nazis.

  • 13 Conversations About One Thing

    7

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    The lives of a lawyer, an actuary, a housecleaner, a professor, and the people around them intersect as they ponder order and happiness in the face of life’s cold unpredictability.

  • Lost in Translation

    7

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    A movie star with a sense of emptiness, and a neglected newlywed meet up as strangers in Tokyo, Japan and form an unlikely bond.

  • Casablanca

    7

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    Classic film set in unoccupied Africa during the early days of World War II: An American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.

  • The Constant Gardener

    7

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    A widower is determined to get to the bottom of a potentially explosive secret involving his wife’s murder, big business, and corporate corruption.

  • Beyond Borders

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    An epic tale of the turbulent romance between two star-crossed lovers set against the backdrop of the world’s most dangerous hot spots. Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie stars as Sarah Jordan, an American living in London in 1984. She is married to Henry Bauford son of a wealthy British industrialist, when she encounters Nick Callahan a renegade doctor, whose impassioned plea for help to support his relief efforts in war-torn Africa moves her deeply. As a result, Sarah embarks upon a journey of discovery that leads to danger, heartbreak and romance in the far corners of the world.

  • The Rules of Attraction

    7

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    The incredibly spoiled and overprivileged students of Camden College are a backdrop for an unusual love triangle between a drug dealer, a virgin and a bisexual classmate.

  • Bulletproof Monk

    7

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    Based on the very underground comic book, a Tibetan monk (Chow) becomes a mentor to a young street kid (Scott) whom he can teach to protect a scroll.

  • Hostel

    7

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    Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.

  • The Sum of All Fears

    7

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    CIA analyst Jack Ryan must thwart the plans of a terrorist faction that threatens to induce a catastrophic conflict between the United States and Russia’s newly elected president by detonating a nuclear weapon at a football game in Baltimore.

  • mag-no'li-a

    7

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    An epic mosaic of several interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

  • Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Dr. Evil uses a device he calls a "Time Machine" to travel back to 1969 and remove Austin Powers' mojo. The sexually wounded swinger must travel back in time and, with the help of agent Felicity Shagwell, recover his vitality. Meanwhile, Dr. Evil's personal life runs amok as he discovers love, continues to shun his son and develops a close relationship with himself. Well, actually, a clone 1/8 his size whom he dubs "Mini-Me". The always time-baffled Dr. Evil begins his plan to put a gigantic cannon on the moon, thus turning it into a device called either "The Death Star" or "Alan Parson's Project," depending on which name is available.

  • Chalet Girl

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Pretty tomboy Kim Matthews, 19, used to be a champion skateboarder - but now she’s stuck in a dead end job trying to support her Dad. Opportunity comes knocking in the form of a catering job in the one of the most exclusive chalets in the Alps. At first, Kim’s baffled by this bizarre new world of posh people, champagne and skiing - but then she discovers snowboarding, and the chance to win some much-needed prize money at the big end-of-season competition. But before she can become a champion again, Kim’s going to have to dig deep to overcome her fears. Hard enough, without the complicating factor of Jonny, her handsome - though spoken for - boss.

  • Mean Girls

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Raised in African bush country by her zoologist parents, Cady Heron thinks she knows about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when the home-schooled 16-year-old enters public high school for the first time and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teenage girls face today.

  • Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

    6

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    During the Cold War, Soviet agents watch Professor Henry Jones when a young man brings him a coded message from an aged, demented colleague, Henry Oxley. Led by the brilliant Irina Spalko, the Soviets tail Jones and the young man, Mutt, to Peru. With Oxley's code, they find a legendary skull made of a single piece of quartz. If Jones can deliver the skull to its rightful place, all may be well; but if Irina takes it to its origin, she'll gain powers that could endanger the West. Aging professor and young buck join forces with a woman from Jones's past to face the dangers of the jungle, Russia, and the supernatural.

  • The Seventh Continent

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Georg and his wife Anna realize how monotonous and isolated their life is when their daughter Eva, in a desperate attempt to get attention, suddenly pretends to be blind. The family decides to break with their trot and plan to emigrate to Australia.

  • Knight and Day

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    June Havens finds her everyday life tangled with that of a secret agent who has realized he isn’t supposed to survive his latest mission…

  • Duplicity

    6

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    A pair of corporate spies who share a steamy past hook up to pull off the ultimate con job on their respective bosses.

  • Benny's Video

    6

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    A story about a boy called Benny, who watches violent movies, including a home-made video of a pig being slaughtered. Soon after, Benny loses his mind and kills a girl and films the murder with his video camera.

  • The White Ribbon

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.

  • Synecdoche, New York

    6

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    A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

  • Dumb and Dumber

    6

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    The cross-country adventures of two good-hearted but incredibly stupid friends.

  • Redacted

    6

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    A montage of stories about U.S. soldiers fighting in the Iraq conflict, focusing on the modern forms of media covering the war.

  • Cube

    6

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    7 complete strangers of widely varying personality characteristics are involuntarily placed in an endless kafkaesque maze containing deadly traps.

  • The Darjeeling Limited

    6

    I have watch this movie twice, the latest being on .

    Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other — to become brothers again like they used to be. Their “spiritual quest”, however, veers rapidly off-course (due to events involving over-the-counter pain killers, Indian cough syrup, and pepper spray), and they eventually find themselves stranded alone in the middle of the desert with eleven suitcases, a printer, and a laminating machine. At this moment, a new, unplanned journey suddenly begins.

  • Saints and Soldiers

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Four American soldiers and one Brit fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory after being separated from U.S. forces during the historic Malmedy Massacre.

  • Valkyrie

    6

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    Based on actual events, a plot to assassinate Hitler is unfurled during the height of WWII.

  • Slaughterhouse-Five

    6

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    A man tells his story of how he became unstuck in time and abducted by aliens.

  • Code Unknown

    6

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    Jean, a farm lad, wants to escape his silent father; he runs to Paris to his older brother, Georges, who’s away covering the war in Kosovo. Angry, he throws a bag of half-eaten pastry into a beggar’s lap. Amadou, a young Franco-African, berates him. The police arrive, arrest Amadou and deport the beggar. Georges’s girlfriend Anne is upset; it colors her relationship with Georges when he returns from the war. Separate lives intersect for the one moment, around the pastry bag, and all are altered. We follow each as repercussions of the incident play out. Deaf children bookend the film pantomiming words, feelings, and situations: what they are expressing?

  • Goodbye Lenin!

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma; a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.

  • Steamboy

    6

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    In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.

  • Super Troopers

    6

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    Five Vermont state troopers, avid pranksters with a knack for screwing up, try to save their jobs and out-do the local police department by solving a crime.

  • Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.

  • Creep

    6

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    Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who’s being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city’s streets.

  • The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

    6

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    With a plan to exact revenge on a mythical shark that killed his partner, oceanographer Steve Zissou (Murray) rallies a crew that includes his estranged wife (Huston), a journalist (Blanchett), and a man who may or may not be his son (Wilson).

  • Mission: Impossible III

    6

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Ethan Hunt comes face to face with a dangerous and sadistic arms dealer while trying to keep his identity secret in order to protect his girlfriend.

  • Me, Myself and Irene

    6

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    A nice guy cop with multiple personality disorder, must protect a woman on the run from a corrupt ex-boyfriend and his associates.

  • 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance

    5

    I have watch this movie once, which was on .

    Explores the bleak, disjointed lives of several people only to tie them together at the end, during a tragic, violent climax. Spliced together, it unravels the fractured narratives from ten sets of people, ranging from a couple frustrated by their newly-adopted girl, an aging father, to a young runaway. Between these narratives, real news footage reporting on Yugoslavian and Turkish wars, and the Michael Jackson molestation trial, makes the world within the film even larger and colder.

  • From Paris with Love

    5

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    In Paris, a young employee in the office of the US Ambassador hooks up with an American spy looking to stop a terrorist attack in the city.

  • Romper Stomper

    5

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    A group of skinheads become alarmed at the way their neighbourhood is changing.

  • 8½

    5

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    A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.

  • Bubbahotep

    5

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    Elvis and JFK, both alive and in nursing homes, fight for the souls of their fellow residents as they battle an ancient Egyptian Mummy.

  • Brüno

    4

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    Flamboyant Austrian fashionista Brüno takes his show to America.

  • Solaris

    4

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    The Solaris mission has established a base on a planet that appears to host some kind of intelligence…